Adguard for Chrome and Firefox has been very good to me the last couple years. Very lightweight and unobtrusive.
I just got a new phone, and don’t feel like rooting it and going down the custom ROM route this time. So I am trying DNS66 (through F-Droid). So far it is doing a great job.
Thx for the info gonna look into that . PM me anything i should know. Haven’t been using the internet browser on my phone for so many reasons.
I use a combo of ublock (and ublock plus) and ghostery. This makes everything roll pretty smooth.
have heard bad things about ghostery but who knows
Ghostery is fine. They support FOSS so I like them.
I was pretty skeptical of DNS66 at first, since it uses the VPN in Android, but I found this Reddit post that sort of explains how it does what it does. https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieHDLite/comments/5zfj9y/how_to_block_ads_in_apps_using_dns66_no_root/
It gets rid of pretty much all ads in chrome on Android, but doesn’t seem to touch other apps, which sucks. I told it to use Google and OpenDNS addresses. You can turn that off, and I’m not sure if it’s on by default, but it has a bunch of weird DNS addresses in there checked to use. I unchecked them.
they’ve been bought by advertisers and sell your data. Don’t use ghostery.
Best option on phones is prolly adaway, it’s light and works system wide @Bane
ublock/ublock origin is pretty guud
Ghostery
Disconnect
HTTPS Everywhere
These are what i use to not see the cancer
also, if you really want to adblock to the extreme
drive with your eyes closed, that way you won’t see the billboards!!!
it really works!
Don’t settle for less, block ads online and IRL today!
Stop recommending ghostery. Seriously.
They act as advertiser middlemen, co-opting real ad-blocker messaging.
Apparently i’ve missed something very interesting, care to splain? (preferably with docs of like an audit or proof like that)
also you should recommend a gud alternative that doesn’t mitm yah data
They were sold a while back to an analytics company that closed the source. They sell your data, it’s in their EULA, and you have no way of knowing what they collect and sell unless you want to assume they haven’t changed their code since 2010. They may actually be more invasive than most direct collection methods.
Just run a local CDN lib repo like decentraleyes, and maybe trackmenot and/or self destructing cookies, and your other choices completely overlap ghostery’s functionality.
That’s uhh. pretty scummy
they must have been paid well, basically just chopped the balls of their own code.
Looked at that, can’t vouch for it either way since i haven’t used it
this is true, tho i don’t mind overlap (different dbs get updated at different times, some things slip through the cracks)
though i’m surprised i didn’t know about the sell :\
it’s been sold twice dude, each time getting more scummy.
nasty, like a whore with a penchant for… giving your data to fat cats
i’m not too good on this finishing sentences th–
How does that work?
sends fake traffic that looks like a botnet back to the advertisers. If enough people do it, the advertisers pull because they think they’re being defrauded.
Why not to try ‘pup-up blocker’?
I used to use uBlock Origin, but I got an notification a few weeks ago about it wanting new permissions. That makes me nervous, so I’ve been in an ad blocker limbo since.
On my phone I use Firefox Focus. Has a built in ad blocker that seems pretty effective, although I think that might be because it simply doesn’t load many things.
Why not to give permission then?
You can see the reasons for the required permissions in the uBlock wiki